Jamie Foxx's Houses: The Hidden Valley Estate in Thousand Oaks and the Tarzana Foxxhole

Jamie Foxx lives in Hidden Valley, a ranch valley inside the Santa Monica Mountains at the southeast corner of Ventura County, about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The mailing address says Thousand Oaks, but the valley sits outside the city limits, in unincorporated county land, and it has for as long as anyone has lived there. He has been there since May 2007, when the Los Angeles Times reported that the actor, then 39 and two years past his Oscar for Ray, had bought a Mediterranean-style villa built in 1995 on 40 acres, with two guesthouses, a cabana studio, playing fields, and a north-south tennis court already on the ground.

The two-lane county road through the valley carries horse trailers most days and, one night in January 2016, a pickup that rolled and caught fire outside his gate. He was the one who ran out.

What we hold back is the street address, which is the paid reveal on the profile itself. Everything else, the county record, the acreage, and the pin on the map, is on Jamie Foxx's Thousand Oaks home profile.

A valley the county wrote down as ranch country

The county's plan for Hidden Valley is written around ranches, and it says so. The Lake Sherwood/Hidden Valley Area Plan, adopted by the Ventura County Board of Supervisors on July 14, 1987 and rewritten in September 2020, is the rulebook for about 13 square miles, everything that drains toward Lake Sherwood. It splits that ground in two: the Lake Sherwood community around the lake, roughly 1,990 acres including the 154-acre man-made lake, where houses are allowed at ordinary densities, and everything else, which the plan calls Hidden Valley/Carlisle Canyon and keeps in a category it calls Open Space. Open Space here means working private ranch land, not public parkland, and it comes as a ladder of minimum lot sizes: 10 acres, 20, 40, or 80, depending on the ground. In plain terms, nobody in the valley may cut a lot smaller than the county's number for that hillside, and the number is never smaller than 10 acres.

The plan is blunt about why. It exists, in its own words, “to encourage and maintain agricultural and horse ranch operations in order to preserve the farm/ranch-based economy within the Hidden Valley area,” and to keep the land outside Lake Sherwood in open space “as a means of retaining the existing pastoral character.” The whole document started as a developer's request. In November 1984 Murdock Development Company asked the county to change the rules on what could be built around Lake Sherwood, and the supervisors answered by ordering a plan for the entire basin, Hidden Valley included, with the stated goal of preserving the lot sizes that already existed. The lakeside got its houses. The valley got its minimums.

Two things about daily life follow from that. Wikipedia's account of the valley, which matches the plan, describes single-family houses on parcels of 20 acres or more, and notes that the Hidden Valley Municipal Water District does not deliver drinking water, so every house runs on its own well. A 40-acre estate here is the ordinary unit, not a trophy lot carved out of a neighborhood.

The neighbors have been famous for a long time. Ronald Colman's ranch later passed to Eve Arden, who renamed it Westhaven, and Sophia Loren owned it for a time as La Concordia. Tom Selleck's avocado ranch had belonged to Dean Martin, who sold it to the car dealer Fletcher Jones. At the mouth of the valley, at the east end of the lake, sits Ventura Farms, the 2,200-acre horse ranch that was Deerwood Stock Farm under J. C. Dellinger from before 1944 until 1978, when David H. Murdock of Dole bought it and gave it its present name. That Murdock is the same Murdock whose 1984 request produced the county plan that keeps the rest of the valley from being subdivided.

The valley has stood in for other places on screen too, in 24, Seabiscuit, and the 2020 Perry Mason.

Forty acres on a map page of forty-acre pieces

The Ventura County assessor's public parcel map is where the estate's own record starts. The layer carries no owner names and no build years, so it cannot say who built the villa in 1995 or who sold it in 2007, and the Times item named no seller either. What the map does show is the shape of the ground: Foxx's parcel is a little over 40 acres, and the assessor's map page it sits on is cut into pieces of about the same size. That is what the county's Open Space ladder looks like from above.

The layer's most recent entry on Foxx's parcel is the one worth watching. A deed was recorded against it on July 21, 2026, six weeks before this article. The record gives a document number and a date and nothing else: no grantee, no price. In California a sale normally resets a property's assessed value, and this parcel's assessed value did not change, which is what a move into a family trust usually looks like on paper. But the map cannot tell a trust from a sale. As of September 4, 2026 no outlet has reported that the estate changed hands, and a recorded deed on its own is not a sale. The Ventura County Recorder's index on that document number would settle it, and we will update this page when it does. Who built the villa in 1995, who sold it to Foxx in 2007, and whether the cabana studio the Times described is the recording studio the fan sites talk about are all questions the same records leave open.

The night the truck rolled outside the gate

On Monday, January 18, 2016, at about 8:30 p.m., a 32-year-old driver's pickup left the valley road, rolled several times, landed on its passenger side, and caught fire outside Foxx's gate, by ABC7's account of that night. Foxx heard it from the house. He called 911, ran out, and with another man who had stopped broke the window and reached the driver, who was pinned by his belt.

“I grabbed the scissors from him, cut the seatbelt,” Foxx told ABC7 two days later. “As we pulled him out, within five seconds later, the truck goes up.” The driver went to the hospital with a broken collarbone that had punctured a lung. His father drove out the next day to thank Foxx in person, and said it made no difference to him who had done it or what they did for a living.

What he has said since April 2023

Foxx was working in Atlanta in April 2023 when he was hospitalized. For 20 months the only public account was his family's, and then, on December 10, 2024, Netflix released Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was, a stand-up special taped in Atlanta, in which he told it himself: a brain bleed that led to a stroke, surgery, 20 days he does not remember, and a wheelchair when he woke on May 4, 2023. He has said the cause of the bleed was never explained. The special ends with him at the piano.

About 17 months after he woke, the estate hosted a wedding. On September 21, 2024, his daughter Corinne Foxx married Joe Hooten on the grounds, outdoors, in front of about 300 guests, with the Santa Monica Mountains as the backdrop. Foxx walked her down the aisle to an instrumental arrangement of a Ray Charles song. “That song holds so much emotional significance for us,” Corinne told C Magazine. Dinner was under a tent on the lawn, and the after-party moved inside the main house and ran until the couple gave up and announced they were leaving.

Tarzana, 1997 to 2008: the house with Foxxhole on the court

Before the valley there was Tarzana, and Tarzana is where the party reputation was earned. Foxx came to Los Angeles from Terrell, Texas, by way of a music scholarship in San Diego, and took the stage name in 1989 (Jamie because it could be a woman's, and clubs called women first; Foxx after Redd Foxx). He had been raised in Terrell by the relatives who adopted him as an infant, Esther Marie and Mark Talley, played piano at New Hope Baptist Church, and quarterbacked Terrell High School to the first 1,000-yard passing season in its history. In 1997, with The Jamie Foxx Show in its first season on The WB, he bought a single-story house in Tarzana, in the San Fernando Valley, and kept it until 2008. He lived there when he won the Oscar in February 2005.

The Los Angeles County assessor's card dates the house to 1949, with an effective year of 1992, the assessor's marker for a remodel large enough to reset the clock on an older structure. The city zones the block RA, the suburban class that requires lots of about four tenths of an acre and still permits a little agriculture, and that rule is why this part of Tarzana reads as small ranches rather than a subdivision grid. The precise address stays behind the ropes; the parcel and the record are on Jamie Foxx's former Tarzana home profile.

Tarzana itself is a real-estate joke that stuck. In 1919 Edgar Rice Burroughs paid $125,000 for a 540-acre ranch here and renamed it after the character that had made him rich, and residents voted the name onto the whole community in 1928.

The Foxxhole was the name of his 1993 HBO special, then of the comedy channel Sirius launched for him on May 17, 2007, and, in the album-credit databases we could read only through search results, of a recording studio in Tarzana on his 2005 album Unpredictable. The album went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and was certified double platinum. If that credit holds up, it places the studio in this house, or on this lot, during the years he owned it. When the Times wrote the house up in April 2019, the word was still painted on the basketball court, and the owners since had left it there.

The parties are the part he tells himself. In a 2022 Complex interview he described the early house parties where Diddy would “come through and give motivational speeches on a mic,” and where he met Jay-Z and Pharrell before either was Jay-Z or Pharrell. A later series he called “On My Balcony” grew to about 2,500 people for a Drake night with a concert pianist playing Drake's catalogue at four in the morning, but Drake's career dates that one to the years after Tarzana, and Foxx does not say which house. The Times, for its part, still files the Tarzana place under “party pad.” The lot, the court, and the lettering are the only parts of that reputation a county record can confirm.

More California front doors

Hidden Valley sits at the far end of the same mountain corridor as the Kardashians' Hidden Hills, and the whole run from Malibu to Thousand Oaks is on the Los Angeles map. The Los Angeles guides page is where our driving routes for this corridor will land once they are built. Start with the celebrity homes hub, and read how we handle the celebrity addresses themselves.